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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.






2. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.






3. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.






4. The conversation of characters in a literary work.






5. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.






6. A character struggles against some outside force.






7. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.






8. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






9. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.






10. The emotion or feeling a word creates.






11. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






12. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.






13. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.






14. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.

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15. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.






16. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.






17. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.






18. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.






19. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.






20. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.






21. The organizational form of a literary work.






22. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.






23. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.






24. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.






25. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.






26. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






27. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.






28. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






29. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.






30. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






31. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.






32. A brief witty poem - often satirical.






33. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.






34. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.






35. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.






36. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.






37. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.






38. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.






39. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.






40. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.






41. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.






42. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.






43. A strong pause within a line.






44. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.






45. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.






46. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.






47. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






48. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.






49. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.






50. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.